College of Arts and Sciences
Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Faculty
Chunmin Lo
Associate Professor; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O., Endowed Faculty Fellow in Obesity and Diabetes
Athens Campus
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Education
- Food Science (PhD), University of Missouri, 2000
- Nutrition & Food Science (MS), Auburn University, 1992
- Home Economics-Nutrition & Food Service (BS), Catholic Fu-Jen University, 1988
Areas of Expertise
- Gut peptides
- Apolipoproteins
- Hypothalamic neuropeptides
- Lipid/glucose metabolism
- Food intake and Energy expenditure
- Thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue
- Neurophysiology
- Sympathetic nervous system
- Vagus nerve system
- Lipid transport and lipid-indu
Biography
My research interests are to investigate the roles of apolipoproteins, gut peptides and neuropeptides on a gut-brain axis through the stimulation of vagus nerves and sympathetic nervous system in the control of energy homeostasis and lipid/glucose metabolism in obese and diabetic models.